DUBAI / Reuters Most major Gulf stock markets rose on Sunday in response to a modest recovery on Wall Street and in oil prices at the end of last week, while a sweeping reorganisation of Saudi Arabia’s economic policy-making apparatus boosted shares there. The Saudi stock index closed 0.2 percent higher after rising as much as 1.0 percent at ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE Cabinet, chaired by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, launched a national campaign entitled: ‘Cohesive Family 2021’, to strengthen family ties and endorse the family’s core role in preserving the identity and culture of society. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid pointed ...

  Ghazni / AFP At least 73 people were killed on Sunday when two passenger buses and an oil tanker burst into flames in a head-on collision in eastern Afghanistan, health officials said, in one of the worst road accidents in the war-battered nation. Many of the dead, including women and children, were burned beyond recognition and dozens of others ...